Alfre Woodard Will Play Taye Diggs' Mother On 'Private Practice' This Fall

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• Katie | September 10, 2012 10:18 AMReply

  What would satisfy me if we didn't have a black guy that hates black women. Not watching this sambo.

• karla | September 10, 2012 8:24 PM

  hey don't watch.. I'm sure nobody will lose any sleep because YOU won't watch it..

• ALM | September 8, 2012 3:19 PMReply

  Is Taye young enough to be her son?

• ALM | September 10, 2012 5:38 PM

  @ Akimbo: How about Phil Morris? https://www.google.com/search?q="phil+morris"&hl

• Akimbo | September 10, 2012 12:17 PM

  Shonda is just all about moms. On Grey's, I think we've met almost all the intern/resident's mothers, but only Callie and Meredith's fathers (Hector Elizondo & 'Cyrus' from Scandal, respectively). Yes, she's thrown Alfre, Debbie, & Loretta some recurring money, but James Pickens has been collecting that fat series regular check for the last bazillion years. Would be interested to see who they'd get to play Jesse Tyler Williams' father, though. They've established that his paternal grandfather is white, but making the very light Debbie Allen his mom has left the door open for either a white or biracial man to play the part. Off the top of my head, I can't even come up with any biracial/light-skinned contemporaries of Debbie Allen. I know there are a couple out there, but I can't get too-old James Earl Jones out of my head. And Harry Lennix too young, Phillip Michael Thomas too yuck/irrelevant...

• AccidentalVisitor | September 8, 2012 9:12 PM

  Diggs is 41. Woodard is 59, closing in on 60. So, the answer is yes. My question though is can any of the black guys on Shonda's show actually have a dad for once? It is nice Shonda is giving older black actresses some extra work (Diahann Carroll, Debbie Allen and now Alfre), but it would have been satisfying if at least one of those characters had a father who showed up on the screen.